Well, this is a pretty shameless copy-paste of François Beaufort‘s post, but pretty useful, so I couldn’t stop sharing it. Now, there won’t be many who would want to do this, so if you are not very curious type, you can probably skip this post.
How To Spoof Your Chromebook’s MAC Address.
Your Chromebook needs to be on Developer mode for this to work.
– Open your Developer Shell
– Enter sudo ifconfig eth0 down to shutdown your internet connection
– Enter sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 to change your MAC Address
– Enter sudo ifconfig eth0 up to turn back on your internet connection.
If you are connected to the internet through WiFi, you just need to replace eth0with wlan0 in the instructions below.
Be careful, once you reboot your chrome device, the physical MAC address burnt in your network card will be restored.
chronos@localhost / $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Use “sudo ifconfig” to see your devices.
For me, it’s not “wlan0” it’s “mlan0”.
it does not work
chronos@localhost / $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Tried this but when I put in the first command it says eth0: error while getting interface flags: no subject device. Does the same thing if I try wlan0. Any advice?
Steph the same exact thing happened to me I was in developer mode i did everything just like I was supposed to what did you do to fix it ?